The Capture of Puerto Bello

The Capture of Puerto Bello is a 1740 history maritime painting by the British artist Samuel [Scott (painter)|Samuel Scott]. It depicts the Battle of [Porto Bello (1739)|Battle of Porto Bello] in November 1739, the opening act of the War of Jenkins' Ear between Great Britain and Spain. The Royal Navy admiral Edward Vernon led a force to seize the strategic Spanish settlement of Portobelo in Panama. Scott, a noted painter of seascapes before he later specialised in views of the River Thames, portrays the action from a panoramic distance. Today the painting is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. The attack on the port was also notably painted again in 1838 by George [Chambers (painter)|George Chambers], a work also in the collection at Greenwich.